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Bitcoin is getting hammered in markets that trade the digital currency, prompting providers of its core computing infrastructure to shut down operations.

The Digg founder has raised venture funding from some of the largest names in early-stage investment.

For years, the rapidly expanding crowdfunding industry has distanced itself from e-commerce to make it clear to backers that projects have inherent risks and may never be completed. Not anymore.

Wesley Chan, a Google veteran who helped grow the search giant’s venture investing arm, has left to join a competing venture-capital firm.

Data analytics company MongoDB is now valued by venture capitalists at $1.6 billion after raising new funding.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, it was a big no show of OLED TVs from the world’s No. 1 TV maker, Samsung Electronics.

If there were any doubts about Samsung Electronics's ambitions for its homegrown Tizen mobile operating system, it may be time to put them to rest.

Shrouded in mystery and hype, Clinkle was supposed to be the next big thing in digital payments. Instead, it is a debit-rewards program.

There’s new hope for 4K TV on the cheap—though you may want to hold onto your money a little longer.

An Apple patent for a wearable-camera system put a fright into shares of action camera maker GoPro.

Does Amazon’s upcoming Woody Allen television series mean the company is turning its back on its viewers in favor of “Celebrity”?

To understand how the economics of Instacart work in an industry known for its notoriously small margins, we examined the company’s pricing to see where its breaking point per-order might be.

Privacy International says the U.K. "simply cannot command foreign manufacturers and providers of services such as Whatsapp or Google Hangout to modify their services to accommodate the desires of British spies.”

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has sparked controversy by saying that should he win the upcoming general elections, his government would push through new legislation allowing law enforcement access to the content of private, encrypted Internet communications.

Music-streaming service Spotify says it has 15 million paying users out of a base of 60 million active monthly users – a 25% conversion rate which has remained steady since last May. The company now faces imminent and strategic competition from tech giants Google and Apple.

Google didn't sign a Student Privacy Pledge endorsed by President Obama, and backed by 75 companies.

Facebook is partnering with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to include “Amber Alerts” in the news feeds of users near a child reported missing.

For the first time, Uber is giving government officials a look inside its rich trove of transportation data.